CCC&TI Event - NSLS Presents Jim Cramer Get Rich Carefully

Event Start Date: 2/11/2014Event End Date: 2/11/2014

Campus: Caldwell & Watauga

Event Start Time: 7:00 PM Event End Time : 8:15 PM

Building: E
Room: 120

Event Description:

James J. Cramer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, where he was President of The Harvard Crimson. He worked as a journalist at the Tallahassee Democrat and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, covering everything from sports to homicide, before moving to New York to help start American Lawyer magazine. After a three-year stint, Cramer returned to Cambridge and earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1984. Instead of practicing law, however, he joined Goldman Sachs, where he worked in sales and trading. In 1987, he left Goldman to start his own hedge fund. While he worked at his fund, Cramer helped start Smart Money for Dow Jones, and in 1996 founded TheStreet.com (now TheStreet, Inc.), a multimedia financial news organization.
Cramer retired from his hedge fund at the end of 2000, having produced an annualized return of 24 percent after all fees, to embrace media full time, including radio and television. He is the host of CNBC’s Mad Money w/Jim Cramer and co-host of Squawk on The Street. He serves on TheStreet’s board of directors, is a columnist and contributor to TheStreet’s premium products, RealMoney and Action Alerts PLUS—the companion subscription service to Jim Cramer’s Charitable Trust, which has gi